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Sto caricando le informazioni... Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)di Rudyard Kipling
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An enjoyable collection of some very random and sometimes hilarious stories with strong undercurrents of Victorian attitudes and prejudices. ( ) This collection of stories from Rudyard Kipling is a mixed bag--some are really good, and some are meandering, and some are outright unintelligible, in the case of the few that are written in the dialect of some of the soldiers. I tried to read those few out loud, which helped to a certain extent. I am a fan of Kipling--I liked Kim, and the Jungle Book, and some other, longer short stories, so I came to it with positive feelings. I enjoy the way he seems to be tongue-in-cheek poking fun at the British aristocrats and military in India. The unfortunate thing about Kipling is that, well, he lived in colonial India, and the underlying racism and otherizing of native Indians is cringingly evident, and can make a couple of the stories, not hard to read, but I feel like I am embarrassed for him, and the fact that the culture he lived in will make him increasingly unpalatable for modern readers. There are some gems though, and those who enjoy his writing will find a few stories in this collection that reflect what we love about Kipling. Nadie discute hoy que Rudyard Kipling es uno de los grandes maestros en el difícil género denominado "short story". Sobre todo, cuando pint en estos cuentos la vida de aquellos ambientes angolindios, militares y coloniales, que conocí tan profundamente en su juventud, en contacto con su tierra natal. Winding through this slow-moving book of thankfully short short boring and redundant stories of the English experience with the natives of British India, I tried to find a favorite. The "object-letters" in "Beyond the Pale" were intriguing, then came the horror story ending. Instead, there was this: "A man should, whatever happens, keep to his own caste, race, and breed. Let the White go to the White, and the Black to the Black." Worse still, on pages 254 and 255, ever so casually appear the N-words. Geez, even from the expected taint of Mr. White Man's Burden, this was unexpected. The book is valuable only for the illustrations of Howard Mueller. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Classic Literature.
Fiction.
Short Stories.
HTML: Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling, the author of The Jungle Book and Kim. Published in 1888, this was the first short story collection by Kipling. With the geographical meaning of "Plain" contrasted with "Hills", the title's pun hints at both the cleverly simple narrative style of the stories, and that many of the them are situated in the Hill Station of Simla, which served as the British Raj's capital during the hot months. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.8Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Victorian period 1837-1900Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
Penguin Australia2 edizioni di questo libro sono state pubblicate da Penguin Australia. Edizioni: 0140183124, 0141442395 |